Early investment in gender improves results, particularly when matched with consistent and continued gender support and resources, such as gender experts and champions, as well as sufficient budget and capacity on gender in project teams and government partners.

Understanding women’s and men’s roles in forest management and forest-related value chains is critical to ensuring project interventions are effectively designed and implemented in a way that equitably involves and benefits women, men and youth. 

Providing safe spaces for women to equitably and actively participate in actions and influence and inform project interventions results in more gender-responsive outcomes. 

Women’s equitable and active involvement, including in leadership roles and decision-making processes, builds support for gender-responsive approaches and policy making. 

Involving men in gender activities and incorporating men as well as women into discussions on gender benefits everyone. 

Collection of gender data paired with gender-responsive monitoring and reporting frameworks ensures that gender results are effectively and sufficiently captured. 

Multiple social identities interact and intersect in ways that can compound discrimination for already marginalized groups, such as women, and need to be considered as part of a gender approach.